Quality of life

Luleå University of Technology offers generous benefits regarding leave of absence. We would like you to have time to recovery and to return revitalized to work.

Working hours

We believe that the possibility for you to organise your own time will help us becoming a better university. Luleå University of Technology has two major working hours agreements:

Flex-time Essentially for technical and administrative staff. Obligatory working hours between 09.00 and 15.00 with possibility to apply flexi-time around lunch and also before and after the obligatory working hours.

Holidays

We would like you to rest during holiday so that you may return with perspective and energy.

Your annual holiday:

28 days until the year that you reach the age of 29.

31 days from the year that you reach the age of 30.

35 days from the year that you reach the age of 40.

You may take vacation from the start of your employment and you have paid vacation already from the first year.

Other kinds of leave

Leave of absence Staff may be granted leave for many reasons, sometimes on full pay.

Parental leave As an employee, you receive an complementing compensation during 330 days, which you take in accordance with the sickness benefit qualifying income (sjukpenninggrundande inkomst, SGI). Furthermore, you may also apply for working part-time until the end of the school year in which your child reaches the age of 12.

Care of sick child We would like you to have the possibility to stay at home if your child is sick. If your salary is above the maximum income base amount, Luleå University of Technology complements the compensation that you receive from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency during ten days/year.

Sick leave We would like your full potential to be recovered. That is why we try to initiate early rehabilitation activities and if you fall ill, we share the responsibility for your compensation with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

Luleå University of Technology pays 80 % of your salary for day 2-14 in the period of sickness.

The Swedish Social Insurance Agency pays your compensation from day 15 in the period of sickness.

We complement the compensation that you receive from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

Luleå University of Technology is experiencing strong growth with world-leading competence in several areas of research.

Our research is conducted in close collaboration with industries such as Bosch, Ericsson, Scania, LKAB, SKF, Boliden, Vattenfall, Trafikverket, Volvo, Metso, ABB, Lindbäcks Bygg and leading international universities.

Luleå University of Technology has a total turnover of SEK 1.7 billion per year.